Brittany Hartos

A woman charged with threatening to kill Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger was released Monday into pretrial supervision, after waiving her case to county court before a preliminary hearing.

Brittany M. Hartos, 25, was also ordered by District Judge William Fullerton to follow through with any recommendations from a recently completed psychological evaluation, pending further court proceedings.

Hartos is scheduled for formal arraignment on June 19.

She faces charges of felony aggravated assault, misdemeanor terroristic threats and simple assault after state police say she called a crisis hot line on April 7 and “threatened to go to Goldinger's house and kill him.”

She also threatened to go to his work and kill him, police said.

The National Crisis Hotline is a confidential service that provides counseling and offers resources to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress.

An employee with the hot line informed police of Hartos' call and alleged threat. Additionally, the employee told investigators that Hartos said she “would find a gun if necessary,” according to a police affidavit.

Hartos was allegedly upset at Goldinger for not prosecuting a case in which she claimed she was sexually assaulted, authorities said.

When questioned, police said Hartos admitted to making threats on the phone to a crisis hot line employee “because the District Attorney refused to prosecute her rape case.”

State police said Hartos reported the alleged assault last year in Slippery Rock Township. Goldinger referred to that case as a “sexual assault” investigation. He said charges were never filed because there “was not sufficient evidence.”

Hartos had been in Butler County Prison on $100,000 bond since her arrest April 8, just hours after she allegedly made the call.